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Comment by cinntaile

1 day ago

Guilt by association is a pretty weak argument, you don't get to choose where you are born.

Nothing wrong with feeling a bit guilty about it though. As I understand, most of you don't.

You get to choose whether you’re complacent and complicit, however. Russia could not have invaded Ukraine without a supportive populace. So no, sorry; no Russian citizen gets a "I don’t care about politics" free pass, just as the Germans didn’t get one after WW2.

  • You're going to be really upset when you find out that you're posting this comment on a website created in the country that, since WW2, has invaded or militarily attacked the Dominican Republic, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Grenada, Panama, Iraq, Somalia, Serbia, Haiti, and Afghanistan.

  • Well, that is your opinion.

    • So 10 mil Ukrainians were forced out of the country but russians can't leave on their own?

      Yeah they can.

      They chose to stay and pay for the war with their taxes.

      but they have families etc etc everyone does, and they still were forced to leave and manage to build a life or rebuild from scratch. So yeah you can leave with your family.

      And yeah you are complicit if you don't do anything against. There is also a way even donating to Ukraine from inside russia.

      Stop defending the complicit ones, the math is very simple.

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It’s not guilt by association, it’s jurisdiction. Nobody cares if an ethnic Russian emigrant to France makes an app.

Nothing to do with guilt.

The fact is if you give that app attention and users it will be montetized at some point, capital from around the world will flow, and taxes will be paid on it in russia, and more missiles will be built.